Gro Sandkjær Hanssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3445866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gro Sandkjær Hanssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gro Sandkjær |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanssen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSSEN G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | By og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR, OsloMet |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8981-9669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Channelling local climate protests: Institutional logics for managing discontent in Scandinavian cities
Building the future: How real-estate developers perceive their role in climate-friendly and social sustainable urban planning
The ongoing process of urbanization, coupled with the urgent need for a profound climate transition, underscores the timeliness and necessity of integrating sustainability considerations within the building sector. Real-estate projects are responsible for about 36% of CO2 emissions in the European Union ( European Commission, 2019 ). This study investigates how public and private real-estate developers conceptualize their responsibilities in prom…
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets. In line with other studies showing how European cities take passive, active, reactive and protective roles in their housing policies, our study of four Norwegian front-runner cities…
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements
Metropolitan governance and planning increasingly are understood as essential in managing urban growth and fostering a sustainable and climate-friendly metropolitan development. Lately, a contractual turn can be observed in metropolitan governance, in which traditional coordination tools are supplemented by contractual management tools between governmental layers and sectors. This article analyses two cases of metropolitan contractual management …
Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation
This article develops a typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. The typology is constructed from a combination of governance theory and empirical observations of co-creational leadership in four global, climate-ambitious cities. By applying a framework that differentiates between authority (multilevel or polycentric) and purpose (policy design or implementation) as key dimensions and categories that structure and co…
Institutional innovation for more involving urban transformations: Comparing Danish and Dutch experiences
Local governments are now facing a need for societal transition to meet the challenges of climate change and lack of social cohesion. Institutional innovation in urban development is needed, especially in terms of more involving processes to achieve the UN sustainable development goals. In this article we ask how institutional innovation can ensure more involving urban transformations. We also discuss what the conditions are for such institutiona…
(By)rom for meningsytringer
Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den norske planleggingspraksisen med delt byrdefordeling av opparbeidelse og eierskap av offentlige rom, som innebærer at byrom eies, utformes og driftes av både offentlige og private aktører. Artikkelen spør på hvilken måte denne ansvarsfordelingen virker inn på de politiske partienes muligheter til å bruke byrom som en meningsytringsarena. I tillegg belyser artikkelen hvordan meningsytringsfunksjonen i offentlig ti…
The Impact of Network Management and Complexity on Multi‐level Coordination
In order to meet the challenges of an increasingly fragmented public sector and severe wicked problems, network structures have become an important part of contemporary public administration. Thus, managing networks is a central concern for public managers. The article focuses on networks being established in Norway in accordance with the EU Water Framework Directive. The mandatory networks consist of actors representing different levels of gover…
Market-Oriented Urban Planning – Constraining Citizen Participation
Urban planning in Norway can be characterised as market oriented, with responsibilities for the formulation of planning largely delegated to private developers. Even though the principle of citizen participation has a strong and longstanding tradition in Norway, the market-oriented practices challenge the ability of citizens to influence their spatial surroundings. Based on broad surveys and qualitative case studies, this article maps the attitud…
Negotiating Urban Space: The Challenge of Political Steering in Market‐ and Network‐oriented Urban Planning
This article examines challenges related to the political steering of New Public Management‐inspired planning practices in Norway and asks if local politicians have sufficient and adequate instruments to hand, and if they are willing and have the knowledge to use them. The discussion is based upon a broad survey of the 145 largest municipalities and qualitative interviews in the three largest cities. It is found that local politicians do not lack…
Introduction: Themed section on Nordic governance
Multi-level governance of regional economic development in Norway and Sweden: Too much or too little top-down control
Regional level has been identified as the key institutional level for economic development policies. However, in Norway and Sweden regional economic development as a policy field is to a limited extent placed under the control of directly elected regional parliaments, whereas the most important instruments for stimulating regional economic development and innovation are controlled by national government and regional state offices. In this article…
Multi‐level governance in Norway: Universalism in elderly and mental health care services
Purpose – Based on a case study of Norway, the purpose of this paper is twofold: to present recent trends in the development of the multi‐level governance of the care services for the elderly and people with mental illness towards what we call the cooperative turn; and to discuss the implications of this trend for universalism in service provision. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a study of documents and the recent research literature.…
Meta-Governance of Regional Governance Networks in Nordic Countries
The article examines the character of political control in the meta-governance of Nordic regional governance networks, and asks to which degree the different meta-governance strategies ensure democratic legitimacy. We draw upon a unique comparative survey targeting regional network participants in four Nordic countries, enabling us to have a comparative approach. We find variations in how the meta-governance strategy of participation by regional …
Councillors’ Receipt and Use of Citizen Input: Experience From Norwegian Local Government
The article expands citizen participation research by tackling participation from the viewpoint of elected officials – the recipients of citizen input. The article studies the role citizen input plays in elected officials’ decision making. Citizen input is defined as information elected officials obtain through direct contact with citizens and representatives of local associations. Using survey data from Norwegian local government, the article as…
E‐communication: Strengthening the Ties between Councillors and Citizens in Norwegian Local Government
This article examines the extent to which local politicians use digital channels in their contact with citizens and stakeholders, in comparison with traditional forms of communication (i.e. face‐to‐face and telephone contact) and which politicians are using digital channels the most. By analyzing a national survey of municipal politicians and mayors in Norway, findings show that e‐mail has become an important channel of communication between loca…
ICT in Norwegian local government – empowering the politicians
Information and communication technology is often presented as having a built-in potential to reduce the information gap between the politicians and administration in local government. This assumption is discussed in the article, by analysing two surveys among politicians in Norwegian local government. The findings show that municipal politicians to a large extent utilise ICT in finding information for decision-making purposes. They also, to a ce…
Offentlig administrasjon på pensum. En sammenligning av seks nyere statsvitenskapelige lærebøker
Retten til effektiv deltakelse: Underliggende demokratiteoretiske syn i folkerettslige bestemmelser om politiske minioritetsrettigheter
The Impact of Network Management and Complexity on Multi‐level Coordination
In order to meet the challenges of an increasingly fragmented public sector and severe wicked problems, network structures have become an important part of contemporary public administration. Thus, managing networks is a central concern for public managers. The article focuses on networks being established in Norway in accordance with the EU Water Framework Directive. The mandatory networks consist of actors representing different levels of gover…
Councillors’ Receipt and Use of Citizen Input: Experience From Norwegian Local Government
The article expands citizen participation research by tackling participation from the viewpoint of elected officials – the recipients of citizen input. The article studies the role citizen input plays in elected officials’ decision making. Citizen input is defined as information elected officials obtain through direct contact with citizens and representatives of local associations. Using survey data from Norwegian local government, the article as…
ICT in Norwegian local government – empowering the politicians
Information and communication technology is often presented as having a built-in potential to reduce the information gap between the politicians and administration in local government. This assumption is discussed in the article, by analysing two surveys among politicians in Norwegian local government. The findings show that municipal politicians to a large extent utilise ICT in finding information for decision-making purposes. They also, to a ce…
Market-Oriented Urban Planning – Constraining Citizen Participation
Urban planning in Norway can be characterised as market oriented, with responsibilities for the formulation of planning largely delegated to private developers. Even though the principle of citizen participation has a strong and longstanding tradition in Norway, the market-oriented practices challenge the ability of citizens to influence their spatial surroundings. Based on broad surveys and qualitative case studies, this article maps the attitud…
Meta-Governance of Regional Governance Networks in Nordic Countries
The article examines the character of political control in the meta-governance of Nordic regional governance networks, and asks to which degree the different meta-governance strategies ensure democratic legitimacy. We draw upon a unique comparative survey targeting regional network participants in four Nordic countries, enabling us to have a comparative approach. We find variations in how the meta-governance strategy of participation by regional …
E‐communication: Strengthening the Ties between Councillors and Citizens in Norwegian Local Government
This article examines the extent to which local politicians use digital channels in their contact with citizens and stakeholders, in comparison with traditional forms of communication (i.e. face‐to‐face and telephone contact) and which politicians are using digital channels the most. By analyzing a national survey of municipal politicians and mayors in Norway, findings show that e‐mail has become an important channel of communication between loca…
Negotiating Urban Space: The Challenge of Political Steering in Market‐ and Network‐oriented Urban Planning
This article examines challenges related to the political steering of New Public Management‐inspired planning practices in Norway and asks if local politicians have sufficient and adequate instruments to hand, and if they are willing and have the knowledge to use them. The discussion is based upon a broad survey of the 145 largest municipalities and qualitative interviews in the three largest cities. It is found that local politicians do not lack…
Institutional innovation for more involving urban transformations: Comparing Danish and Dutch experiences
Local governments are now facing a need for societal transition to meet the challenges of climate change and lack of social cohesion. Institutional innovation in urban development is needed, especially in terms of more involving processes to achieve the UN sustainable development goals. In this article we ask how institutional innovation can ensure more involving urban transformations. We also discuss what the conditions are for such institutiona…
Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation
This article develops a typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. The typology is constructed from a combination of governance theory and empirical observations of co-creational leadership in four global, climate-ambitious cities. By applying a framework that differentiates between authority (multilevel or polycentric) and purpose (policy design or implementation) as key dimensions and categories that structure and co…
(By)rom for meningsytringer
Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den norske planleggingspraksisen med delt byrdefordeling av opparbeidelse og eierskap av offentlige rom, som innebærer at byrom eies, utformes og driftes av både offentlige og private aktører. Artikkelen spør på hvilken måte denne ansvarsfordelingen virker inn på de politiske partienes muligheter til å bruke byrom som en meningsytringsarena. I tillegg belyser artikkelen hvordan meningsytringsfunksjonen i offentlig ti…
Multi‐level governance in Norway: Universalism in elderly and mental health care services
Purpose – Based on a case study of Norway, the purpose of this paper is twofold: to present recent trends in the development of the multi‐level governance of the care services for the elderly and people with mental illness towards what we call the cooperative turn; and to discuss the implications of this trend for universalism in service provision. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a study of documents and the recent research literature.…
Retten til effektiv deltakelse: Underliggende demokratiteoretiske syn i folkerettslige bestemmelser om politiske minioritetsrettigheter
Offentlig administrasjon på pensum. En sammenligning av seks nyere statsvitenskapelige lærebøker
ICT in Norwegian local government – empowering the politicians
Information and communication technology is often presented as having a built-in potential to reduce the information gap between the politicians and administration in local government. This assumption is discussed in the article, by analysing two surveys among politicians in Norwegian local government. The findings show that municipal politicians to a large extent utilise ICT in finding information for decision-making purposes. They also, to a ce…
Councillors’ Receipt and Use of Citizen Input: Experience From Norwegian Local Government
The article expands citizen participation research by tackling participation from the viewpoint of elected officials – the recipients of citizen input. The article studies the role citizen input plays in elected officials’ decision making. Citizen input is defined as information elected officials obtain through direct contact with citizens and representatives of local associations. Using survey data from Norwegian local government, the article as…
E‐communication: Strengthening the Ties between Councillors and Citizens in Norwegian Local Government
This article examines the extent to which local politicians use digital channels in their contact with citizens and stakeholders, in comparison with traditional forms of communication (i.e. face‐to‐face and telephone contact) and which politicians are using digital channels the most. By analyzing a national survey of municipal politicians and mayors in Norway, findings show that e‐mail has become an important channel of communication between loca…
Meta-Governance of Regional Governance Networks in Nordic Countries
The article examines the character of political control in the meta-governance of Nordic regional governance networks, and asks to which degree the different meta-governance strategies ensure democratic legitimacy. We draw upon a unique comparative survey targeting regional network participants in four Nordic countries, enabling us to have a comparative approach. We find variations in how the meta-governance strategy of participation by regional …
Introduction: Themed section on Nordic governance
Multi-level governance of regional economic development in Norway and Sweden: Too much or too little top-down control
Regional level has been identified as the key institutional level for economic development policies. However, in Norway and Sweden regional economic development as a policy field is to a limited extent placed under the control of directly elected regional parliaments, whereas the most important instruments for stimulating regional economic development and innovation are controlled by national government and regional state offices. In this article…
Multi‐level governance in Norway: Universalism in elderly and mental health care services
Purpose – Based on a case study of Norway, the purpose of this paper is twofold: to present recent trends in the development of the multi‐level governance of the care services for the elderly and people with mental illness towards what we call the cooperative turn; and to discuss the implications of this trend for universalism in service provision. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a study of documents and the recent research literature.…
Negotiating Urban Space: The Challenge of Political Steering in Market‐ and Network‐oriented Urban Planning
This article examines challenges related to the political steering of New Public Management‐inspired planning practices in Norway and asks if local politicians have sufficient and adequate instruments to hand, and if they are willing and have the knowledge to use them. The discussion is based upon a broad survey of the 145 largest municipalities and qualitative interviews in the three largest cities. It is found that local politicians do not lack…
The Impact of Network Management and Complexity on Multi‐level Coordination
In order to meet the challenges of an increasingly fragmented public sector and severe wicked problems, network structures have become an important part of contemporary public administration. Thus, managing networks is a central concern for public managers. The article focuses on networks being established in Norway in accordance with the EU Water Framework Directive. The mandatory networks consist of actors representing different levels of gover…
Market-Oriented Urban Planning – Constraining Citizen Participation
Urban planning in Norway can be characterised as market oriented, with responsibilities for the formulation of planning largely delegated to private developers. Even though the principle of citizen participation has a strong and longstanding tradition in Norway, the market-oriented practices challenge the ability of citizens to influence their spatial surroundings. Based on broad surveys and qualitative case studies, this article maps the attitud…
(By)rom for meningsytringer
Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den norske planleggingspraksisen med delt byrdefordeling av opparbeidelse og eierskap av offentlige rom, som innebærer at byrom eies, utformes og driftes av både offentlige og private aktører. Artikkelen spør på hvilken måte denne ansvarsfordelingen virker inn på de politiske partienes muligheter til å bruke byrom som en meningsytringsarena. I tillegg belyser artikkelen hvordan meningsytringsfunksjonen i offentlig ti…
Core-city climate leadership in metropolitan contractual management agreements
Metropolitan governance and planning increasingly are understood as essential in managing urban growth and fostering a sustainable and climate-friendly metropolitan development. Lately, a contractual turn can be observed in metropolitan governance, in which traditional coordination tools are supplemented by contractual management tools between governmental layers and sectors. This article analyses two cases of metropolitan contractual management …
Cities as public agents: A typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation
This article develops a typology of co-creational leadership for urban climate transformation. The typology is constructed from a combination of governance theory and empirical observations of co-creational leadership in four global, climate-ambitious cities. By applying a framework that differentiates between authority (multilevel or polycentric) and purpose (policy design or implementation) as key dimensions and categories that structure and co…
Institutional innovation for more involving urban transformations: Comparing Danish and Dutch experiences
Local governments are now facing a need for societal transition to meet the challenges of climate change and lack of social cohesion. Institutional innovation in urban development is needed, especially in terms of more involving processes to achieve the UN sustainable development goals. In this article we ask how institutional innovation can ensure more involving urban transformations. We also discuss what the conditions are for such institutiona…
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets. In line with other studies showing how European cities take passive, active, reactive and protective roles in their housing policies, our study of four Norwegian front-runner cities…
Channelling local climate protests: Institutional logics for managing discontent in Scandinavian cities
Building the future: How real-estate developers perceive their role in climate-friendly and social sustainable urban planning
The ongoing process of urbanization, coupled with the urgent need for a profound climate transition, underscores the timeliness and necessity of integrating sustainability considerations within the building sector. Real-estate projects are responsible for about 36% of CO2 emissions in the European Union ( European Commission, 2019 ). This study investigates how public and private real-estate developers conceptualize their responsibilities in prom…
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